Daily Archives: July 27, 2009

My math friends tell me regularly, “It’s all about numbers.” Add survival to that with large doses of humor (you would need that) and multiple voices and what do you have? Were this a math problem, it might look like this: 5 + 2 fer + humor + survival = _____. And the answer would

Next week begins the summer webinar series from Discovery. And they have picked a great line up for the first week! Digital Storytelling Week promises to be a fantastic first venture into a month of weekly themes. Here is the lineup for next week: Monday, August 3 – Thinking Outside the Slide Tuesday, August 4

Houston was the place to be on Saturday (7.25) as 55 educators from the Houston area arrived bright and early at Minute Maid park for a Day of Discovery. Following a ball park lunch (hot dogs!), the group was given a tour of the ball park that included a visit to the Diamond Club, the

I didn’t attend, but heard a lot of great things about the Discovery Educator Network National Institute that was recently held. The DEN National Institute for 2009 took place from July 13-17 at the Headlands Institute just north of San Francisco in the beautiful Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Participants has the opportunity to connect

An update from the SC DEN Leadership Chair: Hi SC DEN STARS! I hope everyone has had a restful and productive summer. The SC DEN Leadership Council is getting excited about the upcoming school year. StreamlineSC has added DE MediaShare and DE Health to the StreamlineSC resources. These will be great additions for all teachers

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Many of you may have realized, to your chagrin, that the Xtranormal site has been shut down as of July 31st. I searched for alternatives and found Digital Films . I have only been playing around with it for a few hours, but have not noticed a feature that allows characters to speak typed text

One of my least favorite trends in education is hatin’ on PowerPoint. Visual presentation in and of itself isn’t the problem! A quick glance of Google search results for “PowerPoint meme” sums up the anti-PowerPoint narrative sweeping the web: PowerPoints can be dreadfully boring, and relying solely on teacher-centered instruction is problematic. That being

In this installment of One Idea With: Discovery Education Senior Vice President Scott Kinney interviews Dr. Latoya Dixon and Dr. Mike Waiksnis, Co-Principals of the Rowan-Salisbury School System’s Knox Middle School in North Carolina. Drs. Dixon and Waiksnis’ One Idea focuses on how their different personal and leadership styles support their work as co-principals. Watch the video below to learn